krakentech - Senior Electrical Engineer (Integrations)
Requirements
• Understanding of the Regulations: Strong understanding of the UK Grid Code, G99 the other liabilities of a grid connected asset before participating in the energy markets. • Understanding of the UK Energy Markets: Strong understanding of the NESO ancillary services (Dynamic Containment / Moderation / Regulation, Firm Frequency Response), the Balancing Mechanism, and the DNO connection/integration process. • Technical judgement: Ability to make and justify well-reasoned technical decisions and trade-offs for the wider team, and to take a problem in hand, create a solution framework, agree it with the team and implement it. • Power plant systems: Strong ability to analyse single line diagrams for a given power plant to understand the site architecture for the points of metering and control instrumentation. • Asset integration: Experience integrating BESS (grid-scale and/or C&I) and/or RES (Wind and Solar) for telemetry and control. • Integration design: Ability to produce clear integration designs and design documentation, set standards and patterns, and review others' designs. • Hardware and Networking: Experience with control systems deployments and their connectivity including the local networking and cyber security aspects. The ability to debug site connectivity and networking issues that includes 4G routers and firewalls. • Industrial Communication Protocols: Strong practical experience with Modbus (TCP/RTU), plus one or more of IEC 60870-5-104, IEC 61400-25, OPC-UA or DNP3. • CAD, Diagrams and Tools: Experience or familiarity with CAD tools such as AutoCAD or BricsCAD, Miro and Notion. • Communication & mentoring: Ability to communicate technical decisions through design docs, tech talks and Notion, and to mentor more junior engineers with constructive feedback and guidance. • Wider knowledge of grid compliance (G99, G100, Grid Code) and where the Kraken system fits in. • Experience with AWS IoT Greengrass or similar edge-deployment architectures. • Familiarity with software/scripting and templating (e.g. Python, Rust, the Linux command line) and Git-based workflows. • Understanding of IT/OT security in the energy sector (IEC 62443, NCSC CAF, NIS Regulations awareness). • Exposure to wider European balancing markets / ENTSO-E frameworks and TSO integrations. • Are you ready for a career with us? We want to ensure you have the right tools and environment to unleash your potential. If you have any accommodation requests, please contact us at [email protected]. We’ll do our best to tailor the experience to your needs so you can feel comfortable, confident and be at your best!
Responsibilities
• Engineering background: Bachelor's in Electrical Engineering, Automation/Control, Software, or a related field - or equivalent practical experience in industrial/energy integration. • Travel: Willingness to travel to customers and sites although travel is very occasional. Awareness of site safety is required as we may work with site personnel even though we are remote. • You are a driver and an owner: you take on the hard, ambiguous problems and see them through. You think bigger picture and process, are risk-aware and warn peers in advance, lead on safe working, and are trusted by customers as a technically competent, safe pair of hands. You actively grow the people and the practices around you, and you advocate for the Engineering team within Kraken and beyond.
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